14 | May | 2012

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

North Dakota Hockey Stick: Oil production has increased almost 6 times in the last 6 years. The “Economic Miracle State” of North Dakota pumped another record amount of oil during the month of March at a rate of 575,490 barrels … read more >

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Smart Phones and Tablets Might Be Spreading Faster Than Any Technologies in Human History

Mark J. Perry | May 14, 2012, 9:00 pm

Click to enlarge. From an article in MIT’s Technology Review “Are Smart Phones Spreading Faster than Any Technology in Human History?“: “Presented in the top graphic above is the U.S. market penetration achieved by nine technologies since 1876, the year … read more >

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April Real Estate Blowout?

Mark J. Perry | May 14, 2012, 7:21 pm

In what might be looked upon as a major turning point for the U.S. real estate market, April is shaping up to be one of the best months in years for home sales. Based on news reports for April sales … read more >

Foreign and Defense Policy, Middle East and North Africa

Like it or not, Bibi keeps outsmarting everyone

Lazar Berman | May 14, 2012, 5:12 pm

Benjamin Netanyahu continues to confound opponents, surprise experts, and consolidate political power. Through a series of unconventional moves since 2009, Bibi has gone from struggling to form a supposedly weak coalition to heading one of the largest parliamentary majorities in … read more >

Society and Culture, Education

A college both left and right should be angry about

Andrew P. Kelly | May 14, 2012, 5:09 pm

Democrats in Congress and the Obama administration have spent the past three years going after for-profit colleges in an effort to combat fraud and misuse of federal student aid monies. Some policymakers were careful to cast the onslaught as an … read more >

Economics, Energy and the Environment

Energy fact of the week: The shale whale

Steven F. Hayward | May 14, 2012, 5:09 pm

One of the most tired talking points of the “hydrocarbon deniers” (as I am going to call them) is that the U.S. must move beyond oil because we have less than 2 percent of the world’s proved reserves, though we … read more >

Foreign and Defense Policy, Canada

Environmentalists to Canada: Drop dead

Kenneth P. Green | May 14, 2012, 5:08 pm

In a recent editorial assault on Canada, oil-sands climate activist extraordinaire James Hansen (NASA) has basically declared war on Canada’s economy (not to mention our own). Hansen wrote: Global warming isn’t a prediction. It is happening. That is why I … read more >

Foreign and Defense Policy

Romney doctrine, blah blah blah

Danielle Pletka | May 14, 2012, 5:07 pm

So, David Sanger had a piece in the NYT last weekend wondering whether there’s a “Romney doctrine.” Of course, he wasn’t really wondering; he knew from the get go what he thought. And luckily for Sanger, he had plenty of … read more >

Carpe Diem

Job Market Improves for the College Class of 2012

Mark J. Perry | May 14, 2012, 3:15 pm

Early news reports suggest that the job market for college graduates is improving for this year’s graduating class, and it might be the best job market in four years, here’s a sample: 1. NEW YORK – “The class of 2012 … read more >

Economics, Energy and the Environment

Silent spring? Not so much

Nick Schulz | May 14, 2012, 3:10 pm

I’ve mentioned before that I live in Rachel Carson‘s old neighborhood and often hike in the Montgomery County, MD parks, where she spent time ruminating about the natural world. Given that I’m a fossil-fuel loving, better-living-through-chemistry enthusiast, I am sure … read more >